Fiddle Head Reel
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Fiddle Head Reel" is a New England reel in D Major (Brody) or G Major (Sweet).<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> It was composed by Canadian fiddler Jim Magill (1905–1954), who was born either in<br> Northern Ireland (in 1902) or in Montreal (1905). He was a contemporary of fiddler Don Messer<br> and was centered in Toronto, where he often played on radio with his group The Northern Ramblers.<br> I learned it from Fennigs All Stars.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Jarman's Jim Magill's Square Dance Tunes (1952) (as "Fiddle Heads"),<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981).<br> It was recorded by Fennigs All Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer,<br> Rudy Meeks on Heritage Fiddle (1976) and<br> Bob Carlin on Melodic Clawhammer Banjo.<br>
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